Before moving to Raglan, Lucy exhibited in Wellington and worked on commissions from her home on the Kapiti Coast. She has also sold works - originals, commissions and murals in Queensland, Australia. Lucy is also known as a pet-portrait artist, illustrator and writer.

Her recent work draws inspiration from personal nostalgia and the charm of the West Coast’s various sub-cultures. Choosing subjects typical to the narratives of small-town New Zealand, she captures the underrated beauty of pig dogs, burn outs, car wrecks and cowboys in both realist and semi-abstract styles.

Using iconography usually associated with what might be considered lower-socio economic or working class themes, the aim is to capture the subject in more of a fine-art sense to provide a new context. The idea is to challenge what is deemed ‘better’ and ‘beautiful’ as we face a rapidly increasing economic/class divide.

As social media and mass media in general tends to normalise excessive consumerism and a hunger for the latest shiny new things, it’s nice to look around and start appreciating beauty in more simple, everyday things. Beauty is all around us; it just depends on the way we choose to look at it.